With 2012, Roland Emmerich – the current king of modern disaster films – takes on the theory of the end-of-the-world as prophesied by the ancient Maya to take place on December 21, 2012. Starting in 2009, Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor), an American geologist, discovers from his counterpart in India that the neutrinos from a massive solar flare are heating up the Earth’s core, like a microwave, and that this will cause catastrophic results. Over the next three years, the President …